
Lecture Description
This video is the second of two lectures in this unit. The first lecture of this unit is missing due to technical reasons.
Instructors: Prof. Paul Penfield, Prof. Seth Lloyd
Course Index
- Bits and Codes: Lecture II
- Compression: Lecture I
- Noise and Errors: Lecture II
- Probability: Lecture I
- Probability: Lecture II
- Communications: Lecture I
- Communications: Lecture II
- Processes: Lecture I
- Inference: Lecture I
- Inference: Lecture II
- Maximum Entropy: Lecture I
- Maximum Entropy: Lecture II
- Physical Systems: Lecture I
- Physical Systems: Lecture III
- Energy: Lecture I
- Energy: Lecture II
- Temperature: Lecture I
- Temperature: Lecture II
- Quantum Information: Lecture I
Course Description
This course explores the ultimate limits to communication and computation, with an emphasis on the physical nature of information and information processing. Topics include: information and computation, digital signals, codes and compression, applications such as biological representations of information, logic circuits, computer architectures, and algorithmic information, noise, probability, error correction, reversible and irreversible operations, physics of computation, and quantum computation. The concept of entropy applied to channel capacity and to the second law of thermodynamics.